Eric Galley
A Memory of Highams Park.
My father, a post office engineer, was transferred from Stoke Newington to the Larkswood exchange in 1936. I was seven years old when we moved to 49, Malvern Avenue. I first attended
Thorpe Hall school, then later Selwyn Avenue junior boys school. My very best friend, Eric Galley's
father owned a fish shop just around the corner in Hale End Road. The war came, the shop closed,
his father was called up and the family moved into my road into an upstairs flat. January 1944 saw the start of a mini blitz. Some places in England received attention - our area was singled out. In the April, a bomb hit the centre of our road - ten people were killed that night, one of those killed was Eric Galley. The family, mum and sibling, were sheltering under the stairs they were unharmed - he was only fourteen R. I.P.
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